Mitch Mcconnell Headlines
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News briefs from around Kentucky at 1:58 a.m. EDT<<
McConnell takes political potshots at Obama in Ky. LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell took political potshots Saturday at President Barack Obama, saying his expertise at "the blame game" allowed him to win re-election to a second term even though he did a "very poor job" ...
Border security at issue in immigration bill
Bickering across a deep divide, supporters of immigration legislation pushed back hard Wednesday against Republican demands for tougher border security measures before millions living illegally in the country could take the first steps toward U.S. citizenship. Even modest changes were snared in the political crossfire that erupted on the first ...
AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT
Public outrage over government surveillance has led to many lawsuits, no results SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Before there was Edward Snowden and the leak of explosive documents showing widespread government surveillance, there was Mark Klein — a telecommunications technician who alleged that AT&T was allowing U.S. spies to siphon vast ...
Immigration debate clears procedural Senate hurdle
In Spanish and English, the Senate pushed contentious immigration legislation over early procedural hurdles with deceptive ease on Tuesday as President Barack Obama insisted the "moment is now" to give 11 million immigrants in the United States illegally a chance at citizenship. Despite the lopsided votes, Republicans served notice they ...
NYC bomb plot details settle little in NSA debate
The Obama administration declassified a handful of details Tuesday that credited its PRISM Internet spying program with intercepting a key email that unraveled a 2009 terrorist plot in New York. The details, declassified by the director of national intelligence, were circulated on Capitol Hill as part of government efforts to ...
News briefs from around Kentucky at 1:58 a.m. EDT
Ky.'s senators blocked in effort to legalize hemp LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's U.S. senators suffered a setback Thursday in their efforts to re-establish industrial hemp as a legal crop, but they vowed to continue their campaign after getting blocked as they tried to attach hemp language to the Senate ...
Dems pouring money, Obama into Mass. Senate race
Fearful of another surprise Republican victory, Democrats are pouring money into the Massachusetts Senate race to succeed John Kerry and dispatching President Barack Obama to the state to rally party loyalists two weeks before Election Day. Republicans are watching closely to see if the contest tightens enough to justify spending ...
A sampling of editorials from around New York
The Daily Gazette of Schenectady on more changes needed in state ethics enforcement system. May 31 The Joint Commission on Public Ethics was Gov. Andrew Cuomo's answer to state government's ineffectual ethics system, especially in the Legislature, where lawmakers were responsible for investigating and passing judgment on themselves — and, ...
Kentucky editorial roundup
Recent editorials from Kentucky newspapers: May 31 The Daily News, Bowling Green, Ky., on Walmart helping veterans adapt: Transitioning from military life to civilian life, especially for those who have served in combat, has to be difficult, but it is good to know that there are people and businesses out ...
New Jersey Sen. Lautenberg dead at 89
The next time a flight attendant reminds you there's no smoking or you witness a teenager getting carded at a liquor store, think of Frank Lautenberg. The liberal Democratic senator from New Jersey left his mark on the everyday lives of millions of Americans, whether they know it or not. ...
EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES
c.2013 New York Times News Service THE WISDOM OF BOB DOLE Bob Dole no longer recognizes the Republican Party that he helped lead for years. Speaking over the weekend on “Fox News Sunday” he said his party should hang a “closed for repairs” sign on its doors until it comes ...
Partisan showdown looms over DC circuit nominees
A partisan showdown is looming over what is known as the nation's second-highest court, with President Barack Obama poised to nominate as many as three choices for the understaffed U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington in the face of a Republican proposal to distribute its vacancies to other parts of ...
IRS replaces official in tea party controversy
Moving quickly to stem a raging controversy, the new acting head of the Internal Revenue Service started cleaning house Thursday by replacing the supervisor who oversaw agents involved in targeting tea party groups. A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lois Lerner was placed on ...
Tea party storm largely inside IRS _ so far
Three days of congressional hearings about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups have lawmakers looking for ways to widen an investigation that has so far been largely contained within the tax collection agency. More than 11 hours of testimony and an inspector general's report have revealed plenty ...
Key House chairman slams Senate immigration bill
A key House committee chairman on Wednesday sharply criticized a wide-ranging immigration bill just passed by a Senate committee, underscoring the difficulties ahead as the politically volatile measure moves forward in a divided Congress. Separately, a bipartisan House group that has been working behind the scenes to craft its own ...
Gov't dysfunction may be baked into the system
The works do seem to be "gummed up" on Capitol Hill. And President Barack Obama isn't the only one to say so. Yet despite years of hand-wringing in both parties, little progress has been made toward changing congressional rules on filibusters, senatorial "holds" on presidential nominees and other stalling ploys. ...
Key senator to let Myanmar sanctions bill lapse
Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, easing up on his long-held tough stance on Myanmar, said Tuesday he planned to allow key sanctions legislation against the Southeast Asian nation to lapse because of the country's progress toward democracy. McConnell, R-Ky., made the announcement after meeting with Myanmar President Thein Sein, who ...
AP CEO calls records seizure 'unconstitutional'
The Associated Press' president and chief executive says the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records has already had a chilling effect on newsgathering, a week after the subpoenas were revealed publicly. Gary Pruitt on Sunday called the Justice Department's actions "unconstitutional" and said the AP hasn't ...
AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional
The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action against the Justice Department. Gary Pruitt, in his first television interviews since it was ...
The Senate goes old school
Something interesting happened in the U.S. Senate again this week - the Senate acted like the Senate, and produced a major farm bill minus the usual partisan rancor and gridlock that has come to typify the operations of Congress in recent years. I have joked for years that I will ...
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